Professor of Economics
Chair, Academic Senate
University of California, Santa Cruz
Department of Economics
439 Engineering 2 Bldg.
Ph:
(831) 459-3596
Fax: (831) 459-5077
E-mail: lkletzer@ucsc.edu
Papers in Progress:
“Understanding the Domestic Labor Market Impact of Offshore Services Outsourcing: Measurement Issues,” October 2009, paper prepared for “Measurement Issues Arising from the Growth of Globalization,” conference sponsored
By the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research and the National Academy of Public Administration, November 6-7, 2009. Conference website here
Imports, Exports, and Jobs: What does trade mean for employment and job loss?, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, December 2002.
Job Loss from Imports: Measuring the Costs, Institute for International Economics, September 2001.
Papers:
“Measuring Tradable Services and the Task Content of Offshorable Services Jobs,” (with J. Bradford Jensen) in Labor in the New Economy, Katharine Abraham, Mike Harper and James Spletzer, eds., University of Chicago Press, forthcoming.
“Trade and Immigration: Implications for the U.S. Labor Market,” in A Future of Good Jobs: America’s Challenge in the Global Economy, Timothy Bartik and Susan Houseman, eds., Kalamazoo, MI: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, forthcoming 2008.
“Reforming
Unemployment Insurance for the Twenty-First Century Workforce,” (with
Howard Rosen), The
“Tradable Services: Understanding
the Scope and Impact of Services Offshoring,” (with J. Bradford Jensen), in Brookings
Trade Forum 2005, “Offshoring White-Collar Work — The Issues and the Implications,”
Lael Brainard and Susan M.
Collins, editors, 2006, pp. 75-134.
“Easing
the Adjustment Burden on US Workers,” (with Howard Rosen), in C.F.
Bergsten, ed., The
“Trade-related Job Loss and Wage Insurance: A Synthetic Review,” Review of International Economics, Volume 12, Issue 5, November 2004.
"International Experience with Job Training: Lessons for the U.S.," (with W. Koch), in C. O’Leary, R. Straits, and S. Wandner, eds., Job Training Policy in the U.S., W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2004.
"The Long-Term Costs of Job Displacement for Young Adult Workers," (with Robert Fairlie), Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July 2003- PDF file
Commentary:
“’Fear’
and Offshoring: The Scope and Potential Impact of
Imports and Exports of Services,” (with J. Bradford Jensen),
Peterson Institute for International Economics, Policy Brief #PB08-1, January
2008.
Comments
on “Offshoring: Big Deal, or Business as Usual?,” by Alan S. Blinder and “Outsourcing: Why the U.S. Has Nothing
to Fear,” by Jagdish Bhagwati,
in Benjamin Friedman, ed., Offshoring of American
Jobs: What Response From
“Globalization
and Job Loss, from Manufacturing to Services,” Economic Perspectives, Federal Reserve Bank of
"A Prescription to Relieve Worker Anxiety,"(with Robert E. Litan), Institute for International Economics Policy Brief, #PB01-2, March 2001.
"Globalization
and American Job Loss: Public Policy to Help Workers", Industrial
Relations Research Association, Perspectives on Work, Vol. 6, No. 1, June
2002.
"Imports,
Exports, and American Jobs: Understanding the Links and What They Mean for U.S.
Workers," Center for National Policy, Trade Policy: Forging a New
Consensus, July 2003.